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Dolby has unveiled a new audio platform for theaters called Atmos, which it says creates more natural sound that can "envelop" listeners. Atmos uses a process called adaptive rendering, which Dolby says makes it possible to direct sounds as if they were "dynamic objects," making it easier to deliver...

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It all happened so quickly. Just a few months ago I was another one of those “I don’t watch much TV” guys. I’d hit the awards show circuit for sure, maybe do a Netflix or three on a rainy day, passively consume an hour of CNN at the airport...

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Source: https://www.facebook.com/zuckZuckerberg's desk Facebook’s newest advertising product, expected to be unveiled on Feb. 29, leaked to the web yesterday. The ads themselves would appear to be a natural evolution of the company’s primary money-making business, but perhaps there’s more to these new sponsored stories than meets the eye. The introduction...

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The references books I used to thumb through on rainy day visits to the library as a kid--your almanacs, your encyclopedias, your reference books--are all going digital. If the results are as good as what Barefoot World Atlas has to offer, that's not a bad trend at all....

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The Nikon D4's manual was recently made available online, but if you're of a different persuasion you may be interested to know that the same has happened for the Canon EOS 5D Mark III's. It's a slightly easier read than the D4's, at almost a hundred pages less and...

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Panasonic's financial year runs from summer to summer, so its first-quarter results for 2013 just hit the wire. The figures proudly show that the company has managed to turn around the losses it suffered so badly in the previous period -- with $23 billion in turnover generating a tidy...

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There are two scenarios which crop up in my life with an alarming frequency. The first is the age old problem surrounding business cards. Once you’ve finished chatting with a client, you want them to remember who you are and contact you in the future. However, handing over a business...

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Now that Twitter has launched an ad product and moved on plans to provide Twitter users "official" versions of services third-parties used to provide (photo-sharing, URL shortening and mobile apps), a whole lot of the startups built around Twitter are totally screwed. See which Twitter apps are S.O.L. →TwitPicTwitPic lets...

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Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph released on DVD last week and the movie tie-in game Fix-it Felix Jr. saw a nice boost in its rank, moving to the No. 14 spot on the top free iPhone apps chart and the No. 10 spot on the top free iPad apps chart. Last week, Rovio...

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The former king of smartphones, RIM, has been having trouble getting its fledgling PlayBook OS off the ground, even going so far as to build a system for running Android apps on the platform. This effort hasn’t exactly turned things around for RIM, which is still seeing the PlayBook falter...

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Conventional wisdom says that viral videos are supposed to be fairly short. But Apple’s most popular video of 2012 turns out be almost seven minutes long. Video analytics company VisibleMeasures ran the numbers on videos that Apple released in 2012. The top 10 have almost 40 million views in aggregate,...

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To hear LevelUp‘s Seth Priebatsch tell it, the mobile payment revolution is less about buying a donut without swiping a credit card and more about the treasure trove of data that can be gathered from our smartphones. Now that his payment processor-slash-loyalty play serves over 500,000 users and 4,000...

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Battery technologies haven't quite achieved the same kind of Moore's Law progress as other kinds of electronics. Being able to store energy is still incredibly important, so there are plenty of projects trying to figure out better ways to store up electricity efficiently. No one has a complete solution, but...

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AOL just scored a major victory. It will be selling its patent portfolio for $1.1 billion to Microsoft. Considering outsiders were valuing it at $290 million a week ago, this is quite the coup. AOL gets a nice check from Microsoft with out legal hassles or reputational damages. Yahoo...

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GPS is burgeoning into a tool for more than just finding our way, such as choosing gears on a weekend drive. If one of Google's newly published patent applications becomes reality, positioning might also fix our off-color photos. Its proposed technique would use GPS to automatically tune a camera...

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While big chunks of the industry may be feeling gloomy, the artist formerly known as IBM's PC Division keeps on raking in money. Lenovo's third quarter earnings report reveals that the company sold $9.4 billion worth of hardware, keeping $200 million of that back for itself in net profit....

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Spotify today updated its Android app to version 0.5.3.56. You can grab the update directly from the official Google Play store. This is must-have release if you have Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich or Android 4.1 Jelly Bean: the app will now let you share music via Near Field Communication...

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Evidence is quickly mounting that Facebook's initial public offering will not be the big boost the social media sector needs as Silicon Valley companies try to prove to Wall Street they can grow revenues. On Thursday, PrivCo CEO Sam Hamadeh told VentureBeat that several people close to the company were...

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Another rainy day in NYC. (Photo: wired New York) Zynga has lost another exec. The struggling company’s chief game designer Brian Reynolds has resigned. [VentureBeat] Sorry, Facebook: Twitter is now the fastest-growing social platform in the world. No data yet on who owns the universe, though. [GlobalWebIndex] Netflix wants to...

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Today, The Weather Channel celebrates its 30th birthday. It will officially feel old at concerts and hot new night clubs. In celebration of that, the company has revamped their website, weather.com, to keep up with the times. Weather is a very information-based vertical — there isn’t a whole lot one...

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But the implied yield of 1.77% is miserable and Apple's cash pile will still grow given the speed at which money is rolling inYou still wouldn't buy Apple shares for income. The $10bn (£6.3bn) that the world's biggest company intends to distribute every year sounds impressive but, at the current...

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Guest author Jonathan Stark is a mobile consultant, Web evangelist and an advisory board member at Mobiquity, a designer of customized mobile computing applications. Until 2007, "computing" meant sitting down to use a PC with both hands. When smartphones came on the scene, we got used to computing with one...

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It’s a rare fall rainy day in Palo Alto and SAP Executive Board Member Dr. Vishal Sikka is as sick as a dog. It’s less than a week until SAP Sapphire in Madrid and the community around him are like a worrying family. I had told them that it is...